Libraries and leisure

Bookstart Bookshine Pack - for children aged 0-4 with a hearing impairment

Bookshine is a brand new pack from Bookstart, especially developed for deaf babies and toddlers, which aims to help them get 'bookstarted'.

A Bookshine pack is available free to parents or carers of deaf children up to (and including) the age of four.

Packs contain two specially chosen books designed to stimulate children's senses, including a touch and feel book and a nursery rhyme book featuring BSL signs.

Full list of contents:

• Good quality cotton shoulder bag
• Two board books
• A Bookshine booklet of advice about sharing books with deaf children
• A Bookshine book guide listing lots more great books, as well as useful organisations and resources.
• A nursery rhyme place mat featuring two rhymes and photographs of babies signing
• Information about local library services.

For more information and details of how to obtain a pack, please contact :
Bookstart Development Officer,
Central Library,
Campus West,
Welwyn Garden City,
Herts. AL8 6AJ.

The Bookstart initiative in Hertfordshire is managed by Hertfordshire County Council - Libraries, Culture and Learning.